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Welcome to the Get Serious! Special Super Bowl Sunday Edition! Guaranteed, as always, to be inflated to the proper pressure of ten pounds of hot air per column inch! Yes, sports fans, we are looking forward to tonight's telecast, which is certain to once again produce a titanic battle. Namely, the battle between the viewer who insists on watching the fourth quarter, and the viewer who tells the first viewer "Forget it, buster, 'Downton Abbey' is coming on now." But when the game is over — when the last instant replay is replayed, the last player carted off with a knee injury, the last cute-as-the-dickens Budweiser commercial aired — there is no escaping...

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Welcome to the Get Serious! Special Super Bowl Sunday Edition! Guaranteed, as always, to be inflated to the proper pressure of ten pounds of hot air per column inch!Yes, sports fans, we are looking forward to tonight's telecast, which is certain to once...

Lorenzo Taliaferro has come a long way since leading Bruton High to the Group AA Division 3 football state championship game five years ago this month. His trek has taken him to a junior college in Pennsylvania, then to an FCS school in Myrtle Beach,...

Five years into his career as an NFL head coach, Mike Tomlin had steered the Pittsburgh Steelers to four playoff berths, three division titles, two Super Bowls and one world championship. No one considered him another Lombardi, Walsh or Belichick, but the...

LANDOVER, Md. — It took seven tries over 16 seasons, but the Seattle Seahawks finally beat the Washington Redskins again.
The reigning Super Bowl champions jumped to a 17-point lead in the second quarter and held on for a 27-17 victory Monday over...

Russell Wilson was at his elusive best during the Seattle Seahawks' 27-17 victory over the Washington Redskins at FedEx Field.
Wilson, who grew up in Richmond and had plenty of family members watching in person, rushed for 122 yards -- a Monday Night...

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During a media session prior to the February 2009 Super Bowl between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Arizona Cardinals, Steelers coach Mike Tomlin pointed at me and said, "You owe me for getting you a week's vacation in Tampa."
Tomlin was right....

The 2014 NFL season will kick off Sept. 4 in Seattle, where the Super Bowl champion Seahawks will be honored before the boisterous 12th Man in the regular-season opener against the Green Bay Packers.A full schedule for the upcoming season — which begins...

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People, places and things that make Hampton Roads famous: Presidents, celebrities and more
Hampton Roads is known around the world for its people — as being from here, as a come-here, or for just passing through — as...

Since missing his sophomore season of football because of poor grades, Lorenzo Taliaferro has adopted a business-first attitude that fueled an amazing rise.
To all-state football honors at Bruton High, junior college stardom at Lackawanna and Football...

Richard Sherman of the Suuper Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks will headline this summer's Colonial All-Pro Football Camp in Williamsburg.The camp will be held from June 22-25 at William and Mary.Alsong with Sherman, Philadelphia running back LeSean McCoy...

Virginia Tech entered the 2005 ACC championship game against Florida State 10-1 and ranked fifth nationally. An Orange Bowl bid and potential matchup with Penn State seemed inevitable.But a loss to the unranked Seminoles dropped the Hokies to 10th in...

Archie Manning is already there, of course, and Drew Brees will be. They are the most highly regarded quarterbacks in New Orleans Saints history — the two-time Pro Bowler and the record-setting Super Bowl winner.But three decades after Manning, and just...

Separated by two years and about 25 miles, Morocco Brown and Ray Farmer remember one another merely as respected rivals — Brown, a North Carolina State linebacker, twice led the Wolfpack in tackles; Farmer, a Duke safety, twice made All-ACC first team.
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HAMPTON — Tyrod Taylor received his Super Bowl ring June 7. A week later his mom confiscated the most cherished bling in American team sports.
"I got the watch," said Taylor's dad, Rodney, laughing at his consolation prize.
The Taylors...